Nexus In The News
Significant news articles that mention Nexus, including Op-Ed articles written by Nexus Board Members and Advisors.
Project Esther has shaped Trump’s antisemitism strategy. The Shofar Report is a liberal Jewish response
Project 2025’s Other Project
Most American Jews say Trump is using antisemitism as an 'excuse' to silence free speech at universities
Jewish groups in US line up to oppose Trump anti-Semitism strategy
Nexus Washington Director spoke to AFP about Project Esther and attacks on higher education institutions, “[t]here is anti-Semitism on those campuses… But to give the broad claim that the thrust to fight anti-Semitism is to go after higher education is just absolutely ridiculous.” Rachlin continued, “We as Jews are safer when we’re in coalition with other groups and other minorities.”
How Oct. 7 has changed antisemitic attacks in the U.S.
Nexus Washington Director Kevin Rachlin told The Washington Post, “since Trump came [into office, the Trump administration is] weaponizing Jewish fear to advance a very specific agenda.” Rachlin noted that the Trump administrations endanger Jewish Americans, questioning, “What will you do to protect us? Shutting down and defunding schools, deporting people? That doesn’t protect Jews.”
After Boulder attack, American Jews are afraid
In the wake of the violent attack on Jewish and Israeli advocates in Boulder, Colorado, Jonathan Jacoby, National Director of the Nexus Project told Religion News Service, “there’s a correlation between the violence in Gaza and the violence against Jews,” noting that when there is a major military operation in Gaza which leads to Palestinian casualties, there is a pattern of “surges of antisemitic incidents and hate
The Group Behind Project 2025 Has a Plan to Crush the Pro-Palestinian Movement
The New York Times published an investigative article on the Heritage Foundation’s Project Esther, a divisive plan to counter antisemitism on college campuses that laid the groundwork for deporting students and defunding universities. Nexus National Director Jonathan Jacoby was quoted saying, “Project Esther changed the paradigm by associating anyone who opposes Israeli policies with the ‘Hamas Support Network.’ It’s no longer about ideology or politics; it’s about
The Coming Jewish Civil War Over Donald Trump
Nexus National Director Jonathan Jacoby highlighted Nexus Project’s report, “Fighting Antisemitism, Protecting Democracy: A Strategy for the Trump Era,” stating that “[the Trump administration] cannot exploit our fear for your nefarious purposes. We will not let you destroy our democracy in our name. We will not let you endanger our community, and the communities of disadvantaged groups and of other minorities, and ultimately, all Americans, in our
Progressive Jewish groups oppose Antisemitism Awareness Act ahead of Senate vote
The Nexus Project and 10 progressive Jewish organizations signed onto a joint letter opposing the Antisemitism Awareness Act, stating the legislation would “represent an endorsement of the Trump Administration’s escalating efforts to weaponize antisemitism as a pretext for undermining civil rights, deporting political dissidents, and attacking the fundamental pillars of our democracy.”
Jewish groups rally behind bipartisan Senate antisemitism bill with $1B security allocation
We are pleased to support JASA, which includes serious tools that can tangibly help protect the American Jewish community. Many of the same tools are also included in the Antisemitism Response and Prevention Act, which Nexus also supports,” Kevin Rachlin, Nexus Project’s vice president of government relations, said in a statement to JTA. “Importantly, neither of these two bills seek to push forward an unhelpful, contested definition
Alex Soros commits $30 million to organizations fighting antisemitism — and its weaponization
The Nexus Project, for example, was significantly expanded in 2024 after creating an alternative to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of antisemitism, which classifies much criticism of Israel as antisemitic and continues to be promoted by the country’s largest Jewish groups.
Antisemitic assaults reach record levels, audit says. What data shows
“The audit is crucial, [NCAR Director Aryeh Tuchman] added, but incidents need to be studied to understand people’s motivations and factors leading to physical assaults against Jews. “Simply looking at a list of incidents is not going to tell you that answer,” he said. “You need to study it much more deeply.”
ADL reports a sharp drop in US antisemitic incidents in 2025, driven by a steep fall on campuses
“There are a lot of people who would disagree with that. … It’s important that there be room for multiple approaches.” Tuchman formerly led the ADL’s Center on Extremism, the group behind the annual audit, and now is director of the Nexus Center for Antisemitism at the Nexus Project, a watchdog group that promotes a more nuanced definition of antisemitism than the ADL uses.
Is Meta Hallucinating Its Holocaust Denial Ban?
Meta’s director of content policy recently gave his company a pat on the back for prohibiting Holocaust denial on its applications during a talk at this year’s “Hack the Hate” conference. It took us just 90 seconds to find several examples of it on their platforms. Nexus Center for Antisemitism Research Director Aryeh Tuchman explains why this is happening and how it needs to change.
My Father Was In The Hungarian Resistance. Orbán’s Defeat Reminds Us Why It Mattered
My father resisted the Nazis in Hungary. I thought of him — and how he would have rejoiced — when the Hungarian people voted out Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on Sunday, after 16 years of authoritarian rule. Only a week before Hungarian voters made their choice, the outcome of the elections seemed far from certain.
War with Iran is sparking an antisemitic chain reaction
In the wake of U.S. and Israeli military strikes on Iran, some U.S. officials have suggested that Israel drew the United States into the conflict, while Israeli leaders have celebrated the joint campaign. Nexus President Jonathan Jacoby in his op-ed for The Hill analyzes how this creates the conditions for a familiar and dangerous antisemitic chain reaction.
U.S. Sues Harvard Over Treatment of Jewish and Israeli Students, Seeks Billions of Dollars
The Trump administration sued Harvard University over the Ivy League school’s alleged failure to protect Jewish and Israeli students, and is seeking to recover billions of dollars of taxpayer money. The Nexus Project responded, criticizing the spurious lawsuit and accusing the Trump administration of exploiting “legitimate Jewish concerns over antisemitism as a thinly veiled excuse to attack and bully major academic institutions.”
